Material Quotes

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I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd… — Todd Solondz
I'm currently trying to direct my own material. — Tom Skerritt
I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I… — Olivia Thirlby
I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short… — Olivia Thirlby
Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to… — Gaspard Ulliel
I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth… — Kate Voegele
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. — Jack Vance
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get… — Amy Waldman
One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every… — Al Yankovic
Actually, my friendships are changing because my friends have kids, so that's a new aspect to the material. Not just that I don't want to… — Jen Kirkman
Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern… — George Gilder
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided… — Aldous Huxley
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These… — C.S. Lewis
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical… — John Walford
Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help. — Frederick Lenz
In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the… — Frederick Lenz
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. — Claude M. Bristol
Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got,… — Jess C Scott
There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good… — Mike Leigh
My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do,… — Tommy Lee

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